Bone vol. 9 on PW Bestselling Comics List for March 2009
Publisher’s Weekly has released its Comics Bestsellers List for March 2009, and Bone 9: Crown of Hons is #6.
Here’s the full list:
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw.
Jeff Kinney.
2. Naruto, Volume 35.
Mashashi Kishimoto.
3. Naruto, Volume 34.
Mashashi Kishimoto.
Viz Media, $7.95 ISBN 978-1-421-520025
4. Naruto, Volume 36.
Mashashi Kishimoto.
5. Naruto, Volume 37.
Mashashi Kishimoto.
Viz Media, $7.95 ISBN 978-1-421-521732
6. Bone: Crown of Horns.
Jeff Smith.
Graphix/Scholastic, $9.99 ISBN 978-0-439-70632-2
Crown of Horns vol. 9 is the final volume of Jeff Smith’s acclaimed comic fantasy adventure saga. Originally self-published in black & white in 1991, Scholastic/Graphix began publishing the series in full-color in 2005 and it has gone on to sell more than 2 1/2 million copies of the new edition. The Scholastic/Grahix edition released a 100,000 initial printing of the concluding volume and the new edition has been translated and sold in more than 30 countries. Look for a new Bone videogame to be released in the spring.
7. Walking Dead: Here We Remain, Volume 9.
Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Cliff Radburn.
8. Rosario + Vampire, Volume 5.
Akihisa Ikeda.
Viz Media, $7.99 ISBN 978-1-421-51907-4
9. Batman R.I.P..
Grant Morrison and Tony Daniel.
10. Naruto, Volume 38.
Mashashi Kishimoto.
Viz Media, $7.95 ISBN 978-1-421-521749
New Bone video game? When?
Cool beans on making it to another top list.
Comment by Marcus — March 11, 2009 @ 7:28 pm
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is really funny, I have the whokle collection. This is the website adress: http://www.wimpykid.com Hey, I know this is off-topic, but does anyone make Pivot animations?
-Coolio
PS. Jeff Smith rules.
Comment by Coolio — March 12, 2009 @ 3:50 am
hey Jeff,
I thought there was originally ten books in the bone sega. If there isnt and im wrong do you think you will be making anymore bone books?
Comment by Josh — March 14, 2009 @ 9:29 am
There are 9 books. But if your craving more BOne you should get the two mini series printed a few years back. Rose and Stupid Stuid Rat Tales. Both are very goo.
But I do agree I’ve longed to see mroe Bone stories especially after reading Rose. I very much would like to know more about the old kingdom.
Congrats on making it to the top 10! I saw this at Barnes and Noble over the weekend and was very impressed. Will have to rethink gettingthe rest of the colored volumes. Currently I only have vol one plus the original black and whites.
Comment by Jeanette — March 14, 2009 @ 5:49 pm
hey Jeff!!
Congratulations!
Bone is so great! It definetely diserves the first place!!
I can’t wait for the videgame
Wow the 9th already realeased, i can barely believe it.
Best wishes now and ever
Comment by Paola — March 14, 2009 @ 10:41 pm
Congrats on making the list…
…but the thing that caught my eye was “New Bone Video Game!!!” Through the Telltale people again, or are we talking a whole new thing?
Comment by Derek — March 15, 2009 @ 1:34 am
You know, I don’t know what the video game thing is all about. There is no new Bone video game in the works. I think it may be refering to something Scholastic is planing for its website – - a little flash game, maybe, or it could just be an internet rumor that made it onto the list!
Comment by Jeff — March 15, 2009 @ 11:09 am
Aww, rat…creatures.
=p
Comment by Marcus — March 15, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
^ What he said.
Thanks for commenting on it though. Always good to hear from someone who knows.
Comment by Derek — March 18, 2009 @ 2:41 am
Please make another BONE book. The series is just to good to stop!
Comment by Phil — March 18, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
Over the Christmas holidays, my son (age 9) asked to go to the bookstore. We searched everywhere for something that would keep his attention instead of becoming another lump on the pile of wasted books.
He saw a three pack collection of Bone 1-3. He tore through them. Soon I bought 4 and 5. He could not put the books down. This past weekend we ended up grabbing book 9.
He said when he is finished reading them again, I can borrow the books.
Comment by Mickey — March 18, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
will this have a new series to continue what happened after the end of volume 9? because after the ending of volume 9 i was left thinking what will happen next?
Comment by Patrick — March 19, 2009 @ 9:30 pm
Grats, Mr. Listm’n! I’m so happy that the color job was done so well. The fact a new generation of youngsters will be privy to the Bone saga warms my heart to unexplainable degrees.
I am a video game nerd. I love the idea of a Bone video game, but the Telltale one is almost unplayable, and their character voices make me cringe. A Bone RPG made proper (by SquareEnix, please) would be simply amazing.
Please – don’t make another Bone book. It is a perfectly told tale. Now more back story, a’la Rose, would melt my universe.
QUESTION TIME! (Don’t worry, I really don’t expect a reply – I can’t sleep and typing this up seems interesting enough.) Is there any more info available on the Bone film?? If so – have you given any thought to voices actors?? The right voices would really make or break the film for me, and as I hold Bone on the same pedestal that The Beatles reside, I’d hate to have them break it. Some suggestion from the peanut gallery:
Stupid, stupid rat creature (that doesn’t love quiche): Jason Zumwalt; voice acted Roman Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Smiley Bone: Michael Richards; played Kramer in Seinfeld.
The Great Red Dragon: Samuel Jackson; needs no introduction.
Ted: I’ve always imagined him having a fairly high pitched, super-thick New York accent.
And in a perfectly ideal situation, John Williams or Nobuo Uematsu would handle the soundtrack.
Sorry about the length of my post. But yeah – congrats on the list!
Comment by Gus — March 19, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
Oh my god, Sam Jackson would be PERFECT.
Comment by Marcus — March 20, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
jeff smith why did you stop the novel of bone and i show it to my friend and my friend say that is cool the novel of bone and she ask me if thre goin to be bone vol;10 and i say no and she feel sad.
Comment by kaman wu — March 24, 2009 @ 9:32 pm
MAKE 1 MORE BOOK! TO GOOD TO END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by bob — March 25, 2009 @ 12:27 am
I do Pivot animations =P
can’t argue with that list, even though I don’t get all the Naruto books. I haven’t read them, but I’ve watched some of the anime, and they weren’t my favourite. Death Note is so much cooler! Anywhoo…
I love Bone!
Comment by Eco Kid — March 29, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
My son has written a letter that he would like to send. Is there an address he can send it? Thanks!
Comment by Tracy Dyer — March 30, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Is there an online version you can read of the new book?
Comment by Nick — April 1, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
I had to put this somewhere, cause I’ve been Bone obsessive since I finished the 9th volume. I can’t get past the ending; I’ve searched articles of interviews with Jeff hoping I might get something of him relating about the ending. (slight spoiler warning)
I’ve loved Bone since I first read it in the Disney Adventure’s magazine subscription I had (which, of course, meant I was introduced to it from the very first in color). I HATED when they stopped featuring it. Years went by and I’d see that there was comics out, but I was so out of touch that I didn’t grab them because trying to figure out the where in the story seemed daunting. Then last week I saw that they had these color volumes while perusing through a bookstore…I spent $90 that I did not have to spend to get them all, and could do naught but read them. The last part of the 9th chapter, my heart pounded as it came down to Bone making his final decision…
…it was a good ending. I absotively posilutely HATED his decision, but I concede that it was well done.
But, it led to my scouring the internet for articles of interviews with Jeff hoping someone might ask the question that was burning in my heart: will they see each other again?
I’m not asking for more Bone, necessarily, cause I understand an end is important in all things, and I love that Jeff had the idea of a beginning, middle, and end for a comic, because it is an awesome idea. But…I’m dying for some glimmer of hope that that’s not the complete ending. Not in the sense of him doing more Bone (that would be awesome), but…that Fone Bone and Thorn don’t ever see each other again. It just seems too sad to me…
…so looking at it as logically as I can when my heart strings have been tugged so, I look at one thought with eternal hope: Phoney is incorrigible. He just keeps coming up with scheme after scheme that ends up topping the last and getting him in hotter and hotter water. So within a year of their return to Boneville, he’s BOUND to do something stupid that gets them run outta town again, and maybe that much further into the desert; meaning they’ll be back in the valley before a year is up and hopefully Fone Bone and Thorn will see each other again. It is my hope, it is my dream.
Jeff Smith, I wanted to say that you made an awesome comic that I’ve loved since I was 10, and will continue to love till the day I die. Thank you for making such an awesome comic. You rock. (sorry for the length, but I’ve been about to explode for over a week now…)
Comment by Aaron — April 21, 2009 @ 11:13 am
CHEESEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM SMLEY BONE
Comment by greg — June 11, 2009 @ 11:30 pm
CHEESEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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